ῥίζωμα
From LSJ
ἄμμες δὲ γ' ἐσσόμεσθα πολλῷ κάρρονες → and we shall be better by far | we shall be sometime mightier men by far than both | sometime we shall become much better than you | so we shall be, and braver far
English (LSJ)
ατος, τό,
A the mass of roots of a tree, Thphr.CP3.3.4. II element, τέσσαρα μὲν πάντων ῥιζώματα πρῶτον ἄκουε Emp.6.1; ἀενάου φύσεως ῥ. Pythag.15. 2 stem, race, A.Th.413; θείων δ' ἀπ' ἀμφοῖν ἔκγονον ῥιζωμάτων, i.e. on the side of both parents, Theodect.3.
German (Pape)
[Seite 843] τό, 1) das Eingewurzelte, Theophr. – 2) = ῥίζα, Wurzel, Stamm, Geschlecht; σπαρτῶν δ' ἀπ' ἀνδρῶν ῥίζωμ' ἀνεῖται, Aesch. Spt. 395; ῥιζώματα πάντων τέσσαρα, Empedocl. 26, die vier Elemente, wie ein anderer Dichter bei Plut. de plac.
